"In 1965\, filmmaker Frank De Felitta made a documentary film for NBC News about the changing times in the American South and the tensions of life in the Mississippi Delta during the civil r ights struggle. The film was broadcast in May of 1966 and outraged many So uthern viewers\, in part\, because it included an extraordinary scene feat uring a local African-American waiter named Booker Wright. Wright\, who wo rked at a local "whites only" restaurant in Greenwood MS\, went on record to deliver a stunning\, heartfelt and inflammatory monologue exploding the myth about who he was and how he felt about his position serving the loca l white community. The fallout for Booker Wright was extreme: He lost his job\, and was beaten and ostracized by those that considered him "one of t heir own." Forty-five years after Booker's television appearance\, Frank D e Felitta's son\, director Raymond De Felitta\, takes a journey into the M ississippi Yazoo Delta with Booker Wright's granddaughter in search of who Booker Wright was\, the mystery surrounding his courageous life and untim ely murder\, and the role Frank De Felitta's NBC News documentary may have played in it."-IMDB
\nDocumentary runs 1 hour and 31 minutes.
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